EPISODE

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EPISODE , an incident occurring in the history of a nation, an institution or an individual, especially with the significance of being an interruption of an ordered course of events, an irrelevance. The word is derived from a word (bretcmbos) with a technical meaning in the ancient

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

tragedy. It is defined by

Aristotle

ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

(Poetics, 12) as Epos 6Xov rpawbias TO era b 6Xwv xopuawv eArav, all the scenes, that is, which fall between the choric songs. eiaobos, or entrance, is generally applied to the entrance of the chorus, but the reference may be to that of the actors at the close of the choric songs. In the early

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

tragedy the parts which were spoken by the actors were considered of subsidiary importance to those sung by the chorus, and it is from this aspect that the meaning of the word, as some-thing which breaks off the course of events, is derived (see A. E. Haigh, The Tragic Drama of the Greeks, 1896, at p. 353).
EPISTA%IS (Gr. Eat, upon, and ar4erv, to drop), the medical

term

TERM

for bleeding from the

nose

NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

, whether resulting from local injury or some constitutional

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

. In persistent cases of

nose

NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

-bleeding, various

measures

MEASURES

are adopted, such as holding the arms over the head, the application of ice, or of such astringents as

zinc

ZINC

or alum, or plugging the nostrils.

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